The white man did not come over and scoop up a bunch and toss them into a ship. Did you know that the Alba, Scots, Irish have been the longest race held in slavery. GASP! That’s right, a WHITE race has been enslaved longer then the African Americans were. ALSO white slavery was alive in America as well. Thomas Burton recorded in his Parliament Diary 1656-1659 vol. 4 pp. 253-274 a debate in the English Parliament focusing on the selling of British whites into slavery in the New World. (aka AMERICA) Close to TWO-THIRDS of the original colony came in against their will, to be used as slaves. It’s a shame this information will always remain OUT of the text books in our local schools.The compelling event that would play a representation in the onto-genesis of America was the arrival of Africans to Jamestown. A Dutch slave trader bartered his cargo of Africans for food. They were "Negars from the West Indies. The year was 1619. These Africans became indentured servants, comparable in legal disposition to many poor Englishmen who traded several years labor in exchange for acceptance into America.
Ten slaves were listed in the first census of Jamestown in 1625. The legend propagated the word slave, and did not appear in Virginia records until 1656. Statutes defining the status of blacks began to inadvertently appear in the 1660s. The inference was that blacks called servants must have the comparable status as white indentured servants. Following the arrival of these twenty Africans, the face of American slavery began to change from the "Indianer" to the "Blackamoor" in the years between 1650 and 1750. Negro indenture, then, was no more than a legal fiction of brief duration in Virginia. Free Blacks (Yes, there were blacks who were not slaves. All one has to do is take a look at the census data) would live in a legal limbo until the general emancipation in 1864, unable to stand witness in their own defense against the testimony of any Euro-American.
When white servitude is acknowledged as having existed in America, it is almost always termed as temporary indentured servitude or part of the convict trade, which, after the Revolution of 1776, centered on Australia instead of America. The convicts transported to America under the 1723 Waltham Act, numbered over 100,000.
The indentured servants who served a period of 4 to 7 years polishing the master's silver and china, and then taking their place in colonial high society, were a minuscule fraction of the great unsung hundreds of thousands of white slaves who had been worked to death in this country from the early l7th century onward.
One-half of all the arrivals in the American colonies were whites slaves. They were America's first slaves. These whites were slaves for life, long before blacks ever were. This type of slavery was even hereditary. White children born to white slaves were also enslaved. Whites were auctioned on the block with children sold and separated from their parents, and wives were sold, detached from their husbands. Free black property owners walked the streets of northern and southern American cities while white slaves were worked to death in the sugar mills of Barbados, Jamaica, and the plantations of Virginia.
The Institution of revisionist history has created the misnomer of indentured servitude to sweep under the rug, and diminish the fact of white slavery. However, bound whites in early America did, in fact, call themselves slaves. Nine-tenths of the white slavery in America was conducted without indentures of any kind but according to the so-called "custom of the country," as it was known, which was lifetime slavery administered by the white slave merchants themselves.
I challenge anyone to study 17th century colonial America, sift through the documents, the jargon, and the statutes on both sides of the Atlantic and one will discover that white slavery was a far more extensive operation than black enslavement. It is when we come to the 18th century that one begins to encounter more "servitude" on the basis of a contract of indenture. But even then, there were kidnappings of Anglo-Saxons who were forced into slavery, as well as convict slavery.
Before the British slavers landed on Africa's western coast to buy slaves from African chiefs, they sold their own white working class people ("the surplus poor" as they were known) from the streets and towns of England, into slavery. Tens of thousands of these white were kidnapped children. In fact the very origination of the word kidnapped is "kid-nabbed," the stealing of white children for enslavement.
According to the English Dictionary of the Underworld, under the heading kidnapper is the following definition: A stealer of human beings, esp. of children; originally for exportation to the plantations of North America.
The center of the trade in child-slaves was in the port cities of Britain and Scotland: White slaves transported to the colonies suffered a staggering loss of life in the 17th and 18th century. During the voyage to America, it was customary to keep the white slaves below deck for the entire nine to twelve week journey. A white slave would be confined to a hole not more than sixteen feet long, chained with 50 other men to a board, with padlocked collars around their necks. The weeks of confinement below deck in the ship's stifling hold often resulted in outbreaks of contagious disease which would sweep through the cargo of white freight chained in the bowels of the ship.
Ships transporting white slaves to America often lost half them to death. According to historian Sharon V. Salinger, "Scattered data reveal that the mortality for (white) servants at certain times equaled that for (black) slaves in the 'middle passage,' and during other periods actually exceeded the death rate for (black) slaves." Salinger reports a death rate of ten to twenty percent over the entire 18th century for black slaves on board ships enroute to America compared with a death rate of 25% for white slaves en route to America.
The chronicle of white slavery in America comprises the dustiest shelf in the darkest corner of suppressed American history, ignored by dusty minds. There will only be racial understanding when knowledge of historical truths are widespread and all can negotiate from positions of strength and not from fantasies of white working class guilt and the uniqueness of black suffering - all stemming from historical ignorance, and lack of research.
Let it be said, in many cases blacks in slavery had it better than poor whites in the antebellum South. This is why there was such strong resistance to the Confederacy in the poverty-stricken areas of the mountain south, such as Winston County in Alabama and the Beech mountains of North Carolina. Those poor whites could not imagine why any white laborer would want to die for the slave-owning plutocracy that more often than not, gave better care and attention to their black servants than they did to the free white labor they scorned as trash.
To this day, the white ruling class denigrates the white poor and patronizes blacks.
If this seems admirable from the pathological viewpoint of Marxism or cosmopolitan liberalism, the black and Third World beneficiaries of white ruling class esteem ought to consider what sort of friends they actually have.
The Bible declares that the man who does not take care of his own family is worse than an infidel. This also applies to one's country. The man who turns his back on his own country, then steals into another for nefarious means has no love for either.
White, self-hating liberals and greed-head conservatives who claim to care for the civil rights of black and Third World people, have discarded the working class of their own on the garbage heap of history. All one has to do is look around.